Angèle Christin (Stanford University) will present an ethnographic study of content creators on social media platforms, which draws on cases ranging from vegan YouTubers to “dad” influencers and influencer marketers.

Christin will show how structural forces reproduce precarity as well as gender and racial inequality in social media careers, while also nudging influencers toward interpersonal “drama” and sometimes the production of problematic content. Moving beyond the case of influencers, Christin will develop the concept of the “follower economy” to explain these transformations in how we communicate and present ourselves offline.

May 8, 7:30 pm | ��Kane Hall

May 9, 12:00 – 1:00 pm | ��Online via Zoom

Kevin Lin, Assistant Teaching Professor at 91����’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, will discuss how instructors can use alternative grading approaches to develop more equitable, effective learning environments. Participants will leave this session with an understanding of how alternative grading methods can help meet students’ immediate needs and long-term goals.

At 91����, Lin leads instructional innovation in data structures and algorithms with a focus on restorying computing education toward more critical and just social futures. At UC Berkeley, Lin coordinated large undergraduate CS courses that served over 1,000 students per term.

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May 9, 5:00 – 6:30 pm | Allen Library

Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a film screening and Q&A with Janek Ambros, the director and producer of the documentary “Ukrayintsi u Vyhnanni” (Ukrainians in Exile).

The documentary showcases an anonymous Ukrainian citizen telling her story about the Russian invasion. It was executive produced by two-time Oscar winner Janusz Kamiński and filmed along the border of Poland and Ukraine. “Ukrainians in Exile” won best documentary at the 76th Salerno Film Festival.

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May 9, 6:00 pm | Henry Art Gallery

This lecture considers two commercial artists whose work revolved around light and the manipulation of matter to achieve emotional, persuasive ends: the photographic advertising illustrator, Lejaren à Hiller (1880-1969) and the electrical sign designer Douglas Leigh (1907-1999).

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May 9 – 11, 8:00 pm | Meany Hall

Drawing creative strength from his Algerian roots and Mediterranean culture, choreographer Hervé Koubi makes a much-anticipated return to Seattle with his exceptional all-male dance troupe. Combining contemporary and urban dance movements with capoeira and martial arts, this powerful company is known for its arresting imagery and gravity-defying choreography. In the critically acclaimed Les Nuits Barbares��(The Barbarian Nights), Koubi takes a deep look into the history of the Mediterranean to extract the truth behind the stereotypes of those who were once considered “barbarians.”

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May 9 – 12, 2:00 or 7:30 pm | Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre

The Producing Artists Lab is an opportunity for student artists to share exploratory or developmental projects with the public. Airness is a comedy about competition, completion, and finding the airness inside yourself, directed by M.F.A. Directing student Kate Drummond.

When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy. She discovers it’s about finding yourself in your favorite songs, and performing with raw joy. Following her mission to shred or be shredded, Airness is an exuberant reminder that everything we need to rock is already inside us.

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May 10, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Gowen Hall

Mahelet G. Fikru, associate professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, is invited to The Duck Family Colloquium Series to talk about “Economic and Environmental of Mining in Ecuador.”

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May 10, 3:30 pm | Denny Hall or Zoom

Free |

May 10, 1:00 – 5:00 pm | Gates Hall

Free |

May 12, 7:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

March 4, 2:30 – 4:30 pm | ��Denny Hall

Graduate students in the Department of German Studies have invited Georgetown University Professor, Huaping Lu-Adler, author of Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere (Oxford, 2023) to give a talk entitled: “Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant’s ‘World-Citizen’”

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March 4, 3:30 – 4:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

March 4, 4:00 – 5:00 pm | Johnson Hall

The Department of Chemistry invites Professor Jeffrey R. Long, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, to speak at the George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Organic Chemistry.

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March 5, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Shoji Kameda leads a performance of traditional and modern taiko music. The concert features his 91���� students, members of 91���� Taiko Kai, and special guests from the Seattle Taiko Community.

March 5, 7:30 pm |�� Meany��Hall

The 91���� Modern Music Ensemble, led by Director Cristina Valdés, performs works by Yiğit Kolat, Ania Vu, Evis Sammoutis, Chen Yi, and George Crumb. The program includes the world premiere of Spomenik I, led by 91���� faculty composer Yiğit Kolat.

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March 6, 12:30 pm | ��North Allen Library Lobby

Sarah Rommel, Artist-in-Residence and cello faculty at the 91����, leads her students to perform in this lunchtime concert series co-hosted by 91���� Music and 91���� Libraries.

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The 91���� South Asia Center invites Yashica Dutt, a leading anti-caste expert, journalist, and the award-winning author of the non-fiction memoir, Coming Out as Dalit,��to give a book talk. Raw and affecting,��Coming Out as Dalit��brings a new audience of readers into a crucial conversation about embracing Dalit identity, offering a way to change the way people think about caste in their own communities and beyond.

Free |

March 6, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ��Thomson Hall

The 91���� Taiwan Studies Program welcomes Professor Niki Alsford to discuss his newest book entitled Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History. Published by the 91���� Press as the first book in the��Taiwan and the World��book series supported by 91����-TSP,��Taiwan Lives��traces Taiwan’s complex history through the lens of colonial influences from Austronesian expansion to the economic and democratic polity it is today.

Free |

March 6, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The Studio Jazz Ensemble performs big band arrangements and repertory selections. The Modern��Band performs innovative arrangements of jazz standards, selections from the outer limits of the��genre, and new original compositions.

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March 7, 3:30- 5:00 pm | ��Communications Building

John Quincy Adams sailed from Boston to St. Petersburg in 1809, to begin his service as the first United States ambassador to Russia. The trip took him 80 days. This summer, along with two friends, Willard Sunderland followed his route in his own 32-foot sailboat.

Along the way, Sunderland learned something new both about the beginnings of the U.S.-Russian relationship and the connections between John Quincy’s world and our own. Learn about their trips and how a sea voyage can be an archive for seeing history differently.

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March 7, 7:30 pm | ��Meany Hall

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March 7 – 16, 2:00 or 7:30 pm | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse

In Vanity Fair, Becky, orphaned and disadvantaged, is cunning and ambitious, while Amelia, born into privilege, is well-intentioned but naive. As they each strive to secure love, success, and stability in the patriarchy of early 19th-century London they face many obstacles to their dreams.

This thrilling, highly theatrical play explores the flexibility of our morals when faced with the harsh realities of our lives. As their parallel stories unfold, the audience is forced to confront our own hypocrisy and the complexities of a world that often rewards those who break the rules.

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March 8, 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Gowen Hall

Rochelle Layla Terman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, will be speaking at the 91����ISC on “Auditing Localized Google Search Results for Human Rights.” Professor Terman will be accompanied by 91���� political science PhD student, Bobby Maxwell.

Free |

March 8, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | Allen Library

The Canadian Studies Center will host an exciting talk featuring His Excellency Whit Fraser. In his book True North Rising, Fraser delivers a smart, touching, and astute living history of five decades that transformed the North, a span he witnessed first as a longtime CBC reporter and then through his friendships and his work with Dene and Inuit activists and leaders.

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March 8, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

David Alexander Rahbee conducts the 91���� Symphony in a program of music by Eugene d’Albert, W.A. Mozart, Alexander Borodin, and Igor Stravinsky. The performance will be joined by guest conductor Sunny Xia from the Seattle Symphony and faculty bassoonist Paul Rafanelli.

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March 9, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

Pianist Hélène Grimaud is a deeply passionate and committed musical artist whose pianistic accomplishments play a central role in her life. A committed wildlife conservationist, compassionate human rights activist and writer, it is through her thoughtful pianism that Grimaud most deeply touches the emotions of audiences. For this recital, she performs a moving program of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.

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Through March 10 | ,��Burke Museum

Join the Burke Museum for kid and family-friendly activities. Each floor will have self-directed activities and a unique theme.

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Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

February 26, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

The 91���� Baroque Ensemble, led by director Tekla Cunningham, will perform works by Telemann and Couperin, including two of Telemann’s Paris quartets, the orchestral suite La Bizarre��and François Couperin’s L’apothéose de Corelli.

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February 27, 2:00 pm | ��Brechemin Auditorium

February 27, 5:00 – 6:20 pm | Architecture Hall

Join the Jackson School of International Studies for a talk and discussion on Israel-Hamas: Will this be the Last War? The lecture features Daniel C. Kurtzer, retired Ambassador to Egypt and Israel and Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University.

This event is part of��War in the Middle East, a series of talks and discussions on the aftermath of October 7, the war in Gaza, and responses worldwide.

Recordings of past lectures are available on the .

Free |

February 27, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

The 91���� Concert, Campus, and Symphonic Bands will present “Winds of the World,” performing music by Percy Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Barber, Jan Van der Roost, Yasuhide Ito, John Mackey, and others.

Free |

February 28, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Parrington Hall

The Department of Sociology invites Dr. LaTonya Trotter, Associate Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities, to explore what it means to be a nurse in terms of crafting a nursing a career and balancing competing obligations in the pursuit of being “a good nurse.”

February 28, 4:00 – 5:00 pm | ��Johnson Hall

Professor Gred Voth is invited to the Weston and Sheila Borden Endowed Lecture in Theoretical Chemistry to speak about “Overcoming the Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems.”

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February 29, 2:00 – 4:30 pm | ��Denny Hall

The Department of German Studies is hosting a film screening of The Nasty Girl for the Winter Film Series. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, it mischievously tells the story of a young woman who sets out to research the altruism of her Bavarian town and the Catholic Church during the war, and ends up deeply confused by what she finds out.

Free |

February 29 – March 3 | ��Meany Hall

The annual Dance Majors Concert will present 6 student-choreographed works in the styles of contemporary ballet, hip-hop, and modern dance. Exploring themes of femininity, self discovery, love, and forgiveness, the students conceive their own visions and then collaborate with lighting and costume designers to bring their pieces to life onstage. Come and experience the premieres of these creative original works.

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February 29, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Join the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies for an enriching evening of songs and historical insights as Dr. Sumangala Damodaran, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence and Stice Lecturer, takes the stage. Drawing upon extensive research on the Indian People’s Theatre Association, a progressive group of artists integral to the anti-colonial struggle, she will present a musical journey with annotations.

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February 29, 12:00 – 2:00 pm | Savery��Hall

Professor Elizabeth Korver-Glenn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on racial inequality within the urban community. Professor Korver-Glenn studies how contemporary cities and markets reproduce racial inequality as well as how public policy maintains or can mitigate such inequality. To date, her research has focused on urban housing and rental markets using qualitative research methods.

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March 1, 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Gowen Hall

Join the Department of Political Science for the Duck Family Colloquium Series with Patricia Bromley, Associate Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, on “Higher Education and Sustainability.”

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March 1, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

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March 2, 3:00 pm | Meany Hall

The Campus Philharmonia will present its Winter Quarter concert. Daren Weissfisch and Ryan Farris conduct.

Free |

March 2, 7:30 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

The 91���� Composition Program presents��a concert of works��by 91���� student and alumni composers.

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Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).

February 20, 1:00 pm | Husky Union Building

The College of Arts & Sciences welcomes the 91���� community of faculty, staff, and students to participate in the second annual “Big Read.”

Tune into the conversation with Dr. Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League and author of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines and��Dr. Emily M. Bender, 91���� Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Master’s Program in Computational Linguistics.

Free |

February 20, 4:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Listen as Thomas Harper, associate professor of voice, and Carrie Shaw, Artist in Residence in voice, lead their students to perform from the vocal repertoire.

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February 20, 7:30 pm | ��Meany Hall

Among the most esteemed musicians in the world today, pianist Wu Han, violinist Philip Setzer, and cellist David Finckel share deep musical connections. Finckel and Setzer were longtime members of the legendary Emerson Quartet, which played its farewell performance in Seattle just last year from the Meany stage. Wu Han is renowned as an orchestral soloist and chamber player, and with Finckel, helms The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

They are back to perform captivating works by Claude Debussy, Felix Mendelssohn, and Bedřich Smetana.

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February 21, 6:00 – 8:15 pm | Husky Union Building

Christopher Miller, a writer and journalist based in Kyiv, Ukraine and Brooklyn, New York, will discuss his book, The War Came to Us.

The book tells an inside story of Miller’s personal experiences, vivid front-line dispatches, and illuminating interviews with unforgettable characters. It will take readers on a riveting journey through the key locales and pivotal events of Ukraine’s modern history.

Free |

February 21, 7:00 pm | Ethnic Cultural Theater

Join a panel of academics, artists, and activists involved in the taiko community as they discuss the role taiko has in the community and how the art form and its values are adapting to a changing world.

Panelists include ethnomusicologist Deborah Wong, Winter Quarter Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Shoji Kameda, and taiko artist and activist Stan Shikuma.

February 21 – 22, 7:30 pm | & Brechemin Auditorium

Small combos perform original music and arrangements of jazz standards, modern classics, and deep cuts from the popular music repertoire over two consecutive nights of performance.

Free |

February 22, 4:00 pm | Climate Crisis: Our Response as Artivists, Kane Hall

The 91���� Alumni Association and Meany Center are excited to gather a 91���� College of the Environment alumna, a current student (majoring in geography) and creators of Small Island Big Song to talk about issues of climate change, advocacy, art, and culture. Panelists each come to these topics from different vantage points and will share their reflections on how these topics all impact one another.

Join the conversation as they explore ways people can use their voices to push the needle on political, economic, social, and cultural questions at the root of this global concern.

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February 22, 7:00 – 8:30 pm | ��Thomson Hall

February 22, 7:30 pm | Meany Hall

This ‘Cycle’ celebrates sound, a major discovery of the twentieth century, and musique concrète. It is a fiftieth-anniversary homage to the inventiveness of��, who clearly created an upheaval in the world of music that has had no precedent.

Drawing on the same sound material that was forged from the first movement of Schaeffer’s , as well as from a personal collection of sounds that have been stored away over the years, these four pieces go through a process where they develop out of each other, question each other, echo each other, and complete each other through allusions, commentaries, metonymies, and continuations.

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February 23, 12:00 – 1:00 pm | University Heights Center

Mea Joy Ingram and her father Airileke will lead this drumming workshop, teaching some of the basic rhythms on their Garamut (Papuan log drum). Aremistic, a master percussionist from Tahiti, will also join in to share Tahitian rhythms on To’ere (Tahitian log drum).

Whether it is the Tahitian To’ere, the Fijian Lali, the Vanuatuan Tamtam, the Cook Island Pate, or the Papuan Garamut, a tradition of slit log drums reverberates across our “Sea of Islands” from one end of the Pacific to the other.��

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February 23, 2:00 pm | Brechemin Auditorium

Faculty violist Melia Watras invites the community to join in celebrating the release of her new album, “Play/Write,” which features music composed by Leilehua Lanzilotti, Frances White, and Watras. This event includes performances by faculty violinist Rachel Lee Priday, Pacific Northwest Ballet concertmaster Michael Jinsoo Lim and Watras, as well as a Q&A with the artists.

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February 23, 2:30 – 3:30 pm | University Heights Center

Get ready to sweat and have some fun while learning Sega Dance from Mauritius with drumming accompaniment by Small Island Big Song artists. Dance is a form of storytelling that preserves cultural memory and history. Sega is both the national dance of Mauritius and a profound artistic embodiment of the historical and cultural memory of colonial slavery. It is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the capacity to create and express beauty and joy out of nothing.

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February 23, 2:30 – 3:30 pm | Denny Hall

The Old Yiddish short story “The Rabbi Who Was Turned into a Werewolf” (Mayse Bukh, 1602 ) tells the fascinating tale about a Rabbi-turned-werewolf-turned-Rabbi and his scheming wife. A magic ring with an ancient inscription and Hebrew letters written in the snow play a key part in the Rabbi’s transformation.

This talk explores the role of language and letters, arguing that the werewolf’s access to literacy enables a transcultural and translingual discourse, which highlights not just the contested position of Yiddish but also Hebrew as the language of the Galuth. The Rabbi’s story ultimately presents an allegory of the Diaspora.

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February 23, 3:30 – 5:00 pm | ��Gowen Hall

Join in for a talk and discussion with Jana Foxe, Graduate Student in the Department of Political Science, and faculty discussant Cricket Keating from the 91���� Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies.

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February 23, 7:30 pm | ��Meany Hall

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February 24 – August 4, Henry Art Gallery

LOVERRULES is an expansive exhibition of Hank Willis Thomas’ prolific interdisciplinary career, including photo-conceptualist works and sculpture that examine American culture, with a particular focus on perceptions of race and gender. The exhibition includes more than 90 works drawn from the collection of the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation.

February 23, 7:00 – 9:00 pm |

February 24, 2:00 – 3:30 pm |

February 24, 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Seattle Art Museum

Accruing new meaning as they move from one place and context to another, material objects enable imaginative encounters between the indigenous and foreign, the familiar and unfamiliar.

The Seattle Art Museum invites everyone to join historians and archaeologists for a conversation that will deepen participants’ understanding of the interconnected ancient global world. This roundtable includes four ten-minute presentations on examples that embody conceptions of space and spatial movement within maritime Asia.

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February 24, 2:30 pm | ��Music Building

Bassoonist and long-time former School of Music professor Arthur Grossman returns to campus to lead a master class with 91���� bassoon students of Paul Rafanelli (Grossman’s former 91���� student).

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February 24, 8:00 pm |�� Meany Hall

Small Island Big Song with special guest John-Carlos Perea celebrates the seafaring cultures of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. This immersive concert features Indigenous musicians from as far afield as Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, Mauritius, Australia, and Rapa Nui (Easter Island), all with their own unique musical lineages. From oceanic grooves and�� soulful island ballads, to contemporary styles of roots, reggae, R&B, and grunge, they unite as one voice to make a powerful musical statement from a region on the frontline of the climate crisis.

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Have an event that you would like to see featured in the ArtSci Roundup? Connect with Kathrine Braseth (kbraseth@uw.edu).